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Even if you carve your forks out of T-Rex teeth, stolen from the local museum. As soon as you crash them they will need replacing.
One of the worse failiures I've ever experianced, was with some previously crashed steel forks.
Carbons weakness is clamping torque. Focused torsion can make it fail.
Steels weakness is rust. Hidden rust can make it fail.
Alu weakness is fatigue. Over time it can crack and then fail.
Shit breaks.